The European and American color rendering method of late PS class

The so-called European and American colors do not have an official definition, only because the Europeans often use this color, so some people call this color European and American colors. The characteristics of the European and American color is to warm in the brown mainly color, supplemented by a lower lightness, the overall picture gives the feeling is smooth with a certain degree of expansion, such as Italian photographer Chiara Fersini works:

As before the brown description: Brown can give people a sense of stability, calm, memory. Brown is a stable color, a large area of the use of brown, can give the viewer a strong sense of stability, at the same time, Brown or a retro tone, can be used to express memories, history, old and other scenes.

In the use of the later style of European and American colors, we should pay attention to the use of complementary colors.

Complementary color refers to the color spectrum with the primary color difference of 180 °. For example red with green, blue with orange, purple and yellow.

The two colours are called "complementary colors" when the two shades of light in the optics are suitably proportioned to produce a white sensation.

Complementary color is the most powerful color combination of hue, therefore, the rational use of complementary colors, can be a good contrast, highlighting the theme. We can make reasonable arrangements for the saturation, purity and size of the two colors to achieve harmony and unity. With a good complementary color, can be very good performance of the screen level, while the theme of the expression is also very useful.

The color of Europe and the United States are mainly warm, so in the picture appropriate to join the cold color will form a good visual effect. For example, Italian photographer Chiara Fersini's work:

Let's look at a practical example:

This picture of the overall partial cool, no obvious color distinction, we can through the European and American color and complementary color collocation, make the picture to warm change, at the same time form contrast.

First, we increase the color temperature values:

Effect as shown:

The appearance of the picture has changed a lot.

We create a new gradient filter that lowers the color temperature (creating a cool, complementary), reduces exposure (rendering the sky detail), enhances contrast (makes the sky more visible, more colorful), and improves clarity (edges are more pronounced)

Effect as shown:

As you can see, the whole picture has a basic contrast.

At this time we use HSL tools, reduce the brightness and saturation of cyan (water), make its color more deep, the overall picture more stable:

Effect as shown:

At this time we can also use the channel curve for a simple adjustment, for this style, we usually use the blue curve:

The blue curve stretches to the left to make the picture more cold:

The blue curve stretches lower to the right to make the picture more warm:

If the appearance of the S-shaped, you can let the low light part of the warming, the high light part of the cooling, concrete to the picture is the rock warming, the sky cooling:

We pull a curve like this:

To this step, we basically finished the European and American color construction.

Where are the key points of color in Europe and America?

One, use the color temperature tool adjusts the whole tonal atmosphere.

Second, pay attention to the use of complementary color, that is, the combination of warm and cold color.

Third, the use of HSL tools to reduce the lightness of color, so that the color looks more calm.

Rational use of the blue channel curve, adjust the color.

Five, with the gradient filter tool to change the local shape, making the image more prominent texture.

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